Pumpkin Wishes

Good Morning! I hope the weather has cooled for you where you live! It as here, its so much nicer for our evening walks.

My post today is sharing the super cute Halloween Harvest from Stampers Delights. 

I colored this adorable image with alcohol markers. The scene didn't need anything else other than a green mat on my white A2 card base. I did add white gel pen for highlights.

I love fall and love coloring in fall colors and digital stamps are great for this because they can be resized for your project.

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Thank you for taking time to read my post, I hope it has given you inspiration for your halloween crafts!

Pumpkin pals!

 Good afternoon! How can it be the 1st of October? where is this year going - doesn't seem like 2 minutes we were breaking for summer!

Today's post is inspiration for Stamper's Delights Progressive challenge. This is a FB challenge where anyone can enter. The images are available free by signing up for the Stamper's Delights membership. You just then enter your completed design on the Stamper's Delights Facebook group, all rules can be found in the challenge post over there.

So on to my inspiration, this month's image is called Harvest Wishes which is this super cute Kawaii pumpkin:

Isn't it adorable? I arranged my images in a graphics program, added my sentiment and printed on to stamping card. 

This was then colored with Copic markers and cut to size. My A2 card base was matted with orange and black cardstock and my image added to this. I added some white gel pen to the lines of the pumpkin to give the illusion of shine.

Thank you for stopping by, now go join the free progressive membership and lets see your entries to the challenge!

Dressing Up Gnomes

 Good evening! it's been a cold few days here, makes you want to snuggle up on the couch all day!

Today's post is using some digital stamps I've had a couple of months and not been able to get round to using them. So today I printed them and enjoyed myself coloring them. They are cute freebies from TLC Designs.

The first one I thought was so funny! given the USA's current situation with voting I thought, forget the Republicans and Democrats and vote Gnome!

Isn't he just the great! He is from TLC designs and is called Gnorman. He some with a bunch of sentiments including the ones I have used and as well as election time would be great for Independence Day. I resized him, arranged his sentiments, printed him and colored with Copic markers trying to emulated the colors of the Statue of Liberty. He was matted with a coordinating card stock and placed on an A& card base.

My next card is a Halloween card for a little girl Mollie is going to spend Halloween with using Jack O'Gnome:

Another great image! I just love the mass of curls for his beard! This image comes with all sorts of extras including papers one of which I have used. I printed and colored him again with Copic markers I then fussy cut him. I matted an A2 card base with the leafy paper and added Jack to it. I couldn't make one of the sets sentiments fit my card since the pumpkin was so round so I used a Spellbinders die to make my Eek and boO!

I loved coloring these guys, but gnomes are always fun to play with!

Thanks for stopping by and if you love what you see please leave me some love in the comments.

Fall treats

 Good afternoon! hope everyone is enjoying fall, I have had time to get out and do some walking amongst the fall colors, Michigan is beautiful this time of year.

Talking of Fall, It's new release day at Stamper's Delights for the super cute Kawaii images and the fall images are adorable:

What I Did: 

This is actually 2 images that I have, resized,  grouped together and shuffled some leaves around which demonstrates how versatile digital stamps are.

Once I had them where I wanted them I colored with alcohol markers - I had to add lots of freckles to my little redhead. The image was fussy cut ready for my card.

I matted an A7 card base with green cardstock. I made my own digital design paper, I took an orange striped paper, reduced the opacity and added all the script fall words. I then printed and cut down to fit on my base.

I added my image and die cut leaves from foil paper. These where scattered to make it look like they were being blown around.

I couldn't resist using one of the other Kawaii new releases to make a little note card:

This little guy is Just a note, I resized him and one of sentiments printed and colored with alcohol markers. I joined the pen to the sentiment then off the page to.......

The second sentiment inside! Both were matted with blue cardstock and added to an A7 card base.

What I Used: 

Digital Images: Stamper's Delights - Autumn Leaves

                          Stamper's Delights - Just a Note 2

Digital Paper: Sherry K Designs plus computer edits

Stamping Card: X-Press It

Alcohol Markers: Copic

White Card For Bases: Neenah Solar White Coverstock

Green and Blue Cardstock for mats: Core'Dinations Premium

Leaf Die: Lawn Fawn

Foil Paper: Rinea

Head on over to the Stamper's Delights Store to see all of this week’s New Releases.

Why not stop by the Stamper's Delight Facebook page for regular news and inspiration from my Teamies you can also enter the progressive challenge there, no blog needed and receive freebies! 

 

All the design team projects are available on the Inspiration blog - hop on over there for more inspiration.

Thanks for stopping by and if you like what you see please leave a comment to let me know!

Frankie Stein is Trick or Treating

 Good afternoon, we have had a rough week this week, 2 of our very dear neighbors have moved homes, one to a completely new state. Then Mollie's well loved bunny Snowball died. We've worked through it all and I am so proud of Mollie, even though she has been devastated at losing Snowball she never let her school work slip!

On to better news - It's Kawaii new release over at Stamper's Delights and if you love Halloween you need to check it out. We have some adorable Trick or Treaters for you. I got to play with the super cute Frankie Stein:

What I Did:

I resized the image and the star, I added the sentiment to the star and printed everything. I then used my Scan N Cut to fussy cut them. They were then colored with alcohol markers.

My A7 card base was matted with orange cardstock and a piece of Halloween themed digital design paper. I added my star so it went off the edge of card and used foam to to raise Frankie off the card giving him some dimension.

What I Used:

Digital Stamps: Stamper's Delights Frankie Stein

Stamping Card: X-Press It

Alcohol Markers: Copic

Black card for base: Linda Chapman

Orange cardstock: Core'Dinations Premium

Digital Design Paper: Polkadoodles

Glue: ZipDry

Foam Pads: Dollar Store

Head on over to the Stamper's Delights Store to see all of this week’s New Releases.

Why not stop by the Stamper's Delight Facebook page for regular news and inspiration from my Teamies you can also enter the progressive challenge there, no blog needed and receive freebies! 

 

All the design team projects are available on the Inspiration blog - hop on over there for more inspiration.

I am entering this card into the following challenges

Colour Crazy Craft Challenge - Anything Goes with colouring

Creative Knockouts - Anything Goes 

Krafty Chicks Challenge - All Occasions

Thanks for stopping by and if you like what you see please leave a comment to let me know! 

Winnie Wednesday and her Skull!

 Good afternoon, Thank goodness it's Friday, my week days are filled with supervising school work so the weekend means a mental break!

Today I'm showing more of the New release stamps from Polkadoodles. I'm once again using Boneshakin Halloween Winnie Wednesday:

What I Did:

I stamped the image and pumpkin onto stamping card, I then used my scan n cut to cut the images out before I colored them with alcohol markers.

I matted a black A2 card base with orange card stock, I also cut a mat from black cardstock but die cut a Halloween aperture from this before adhering to my card. I stamped the sentiment in the middle of the aperture and arranged my images on the card to finish the design.

What I Used:

Stamps: Polkadoodles - Boneshakin Halloween Winnie Wednesday Clear Stamps

Stamping Card: X-Press It

Alcohol Markers: Copic

Black Card: Core'Dinations Premium

Die: Gina Marie

Orange Cardstock: Core'Dinations Premium

Glue: Zip Dry

Looking for more inspiration? Then check out my teamies designs over on the Facebook page, you can also post your own Polkadoodles' designs on the Craft Stamp and Colour with Polkadoodles Facebook group

Thanks for stopping by.

Bone Shakin' Halloween

 Good afternoon! I have all the house doors open letting the cooler air in to the house, It's so much better than the air con! The dogs love it too. 

Halloween isn't that fair away and Polkadoodles have released a great set of clear stamps using their cute Winnie Wednesday! I have designed a collection of cards for this new release and over the next few days I will be showcasing them for you.

My first card is using Boneshakin Halloween Winnie Wednesday, there are 2 main images in this set with lots of  embellishment stamps you can use with them. My card is using Winnie sitting on a huge pumpkin:

What I Did: 

I started by stamping the main image onto stamping card, I then masked the edge of this and stamped the cat. This gives the impression the cat is behind the pumpkins. The sentiment was then stamped across the top. I then colored the image with alcohol markers.

I matted a black A2 card base with purple card stock and design paper from the Boneshakin Halloween Paper Pack. 

My Image was trimmed to fit may card and matted with black and purple cardstock before adhering to the card base with foam tape. 

What I Used:

Stamps: Polkadoodles - Boneshakin Halloween Winnie Wednesday Clear stamp Set

Stamping Card: X-Press It

Alcohol Markers: Copic

Design Paper: Polkadoodles - Boneshakin Halloween 6x6 Paper Pack 

Card Base and black card Mat: Core'dinations premium heavy weight cardstock

Purple Card: Tonic

Looking for more inspiration? Then check out my teamies designs over on the Facebook page, you can also post your own Polkadoodles' designs on the Craft Stamp and Colour with Polkadoodles Facebook group

Thanks for stopping by.

National Pumpkin Day

Did you know that today is National Pumpkin Day?

Living in quite a rural area this time of year means that all the farmers sell their wares and no matter which way we drive around here we come across pumpkins, squash, apples and other produce for sale on the side of the roads.

To celebrate the day I have a great make to share with you today just for the occasion. Riley and Company have some great Fall images and sentiments and I couldn't resist making something a bit

different with some of them :

Meet Riley holding his pumpkin!

Isn't he just the cutest - standing there in his witches hat and hugging a large Jack-o-Lantern.

I colored him with my Copic Markers and fussy cut him. He was then glued onto a strip of acetate so he would stand up. 

The sentiment is also a Riley and Company one from their Funny Bones collection. I stamped this as 2 separate sections, matted them onto green card leaving a tab at the bottom so they would again stand up on my pumpkin base.

I made the pumpkin using strips of orange card I stacked them on top of each other then fastened one end with brads. These were then fanned out and I gathered the other end together to get the round shape. I then glued die cut flourishes to the top and fixed it to some brown card as a base.

I had to make this extra special and although I didn't add any embellishments I did add something more.......

Yes I placed a battery operated tealight in the center of the pumpkin. so it glows!!! 

Thank you for stopping by if you like what you see please leave some love. 

For more inspiration check out the Riley and Company Blog. Or for more news about what the Moose and his pals are up to head on over to the company Facebook page